Film Reviews by MD

Not your average movie and not to everyone's taste, but we'll worth your time if you like to stray off the beaten path...

A mind-bending blend of comedy and horror elements about food as performance art set in a pretentious cuisine school. All the theatricality of pretentious foodies is skewered with an intimate and explosive exploration of the digestive process. Throw in an over-ripe sound track and a foodie terrorist group, plus some off-kilter sexualised smells and substances, and you have a unique and often surreal trip down the digestive tract.

What am I talking about ? Watch it and find out.

Not recommended if you like fast, gabby action movies.

This is a slow and immersive look at alienation in a big city full of foreign workers, two of whom finally bump into each other and make a potential connection. No manufactured drama but lots of interactions which carry quite a lot of weight.

Beautifully shot with understated performances from the two leads.

Well worth your attention.

I've seen this director's previous movies which were quite challenging and experimental but much better than this one.

Like an omnibus edition of Hollyoaks, this is an uninspiring teen romance of over 2 hours. The story is totally unsurprising and the albeit attractive leads really can't act. All underwear and snogging but no real depth. I was watching it at double speed for the second hour.

No spoilers in this review.

I was expecting your average Japanese thriller cum horror fare but this was way better. Brilliant script and construction; you don't actually know where it's going until 3/4 of the way through. Very good performances with real weight to the main roles.

Tor Iben must know a lot of gay men with money to burn.

Even by his underwhelming standards this is very thin stuff. No real plot, poor editing and an unbelievably bad script. Oh, but there's obligatory underwear shots every 2 minutes.

Tor, please give up and get a day job.

I think Thiago Cazado must have a sugar daddy (special thanks to somebody at start of movie) because this film should never have got off the ground.

It's meant to be a dramedy of sorts but really isn't funny or that involving due to awful editing, poor script and second-rate acting. Thiago himself can't really act and the humour is very old-fashioned (like a 70's sitcom). So unless you find him really attractive (spoiler alert - he isn't) then I'd give this one a miss.

This is obviously meant to be like a 'Divine/ John Waters' movie. But while the originals were genuinely off-the-wall and deliriously badly made (and all the funnier for it), this is a slick, lifeless and pale imitation.

So unless your idea of entertainment is watching a bloated tart wobble round in a succession of frocks, give this a very wide birth.

Couldn't get the dialogue sound or the subtitles to work for this so watched it blind but really it was soft-porn, pretentious rubbish.

By far the worst movie I've ever watched on this website. Not even laughably bad; just plain bad.

Avoid - you have been warned.

I've watched a couple of earlier films by the same director and found them fascinating and compelling.

This one however isn't up to the same standard and seems a bit of a whimsical mess and at 2 hours plus, is just too long.

Even the character played by Josh O'connor doesn't have any real depth and he comes across as an Oirish tinker who's wandered into Italy by mistake. But no, he's an Etruscan grave robber (?!). You see the problems....

Nice visuals and above-average acting from the youngish cast.

But lots of therapy speak, maudlin, irritating sound track and apart from major back story, very little dramatic tension. Is it just my age or are these post-teens just really boring ?

Reference to 'Looking' is wide of the mark; that was far superior to this offering in every department .

This can seem at first like a fairly outdated movie now which is a cross between a farce and a sitcom.

But it has some very funny moments, lots of different characters and a very finely-tuned plot which delivers a big denouement.

Quite honestly, this is far better than a lot of the 'queer' cinema that gets money at the moment and today's directors could learn a lot from a film like this.

Wonky camerawork, bad acting and a rambling storyline.

Looks like a poor home movie. One to avoid.

Yet another underwhelming gay offering, this time from France.

On the DVD there are 3 short films from the same director so he must have a sugar daddy with more money than sense.

I will admit that this is the best of the four so he's at least improving but at this rate we'll have all lost interest by the time he hits the jackpot.

Bit of a road movie, bit scifi, bit teen drama but really it's just the two leads staring at each other in a swoon with a lot of meaninglessness dialogue. They're lovely of course but it's not enough is it ?

Sorry, but teenagers are basically very boring unless you're one yourself so if not, best not to bother.

Won't repeat what others have said below.

This is a beautiful, slow burn, absorbing feature with great acting and a hypnotic style that's totally involving.

Bleak but mesmerising. Best movie I've seen in ages and quite different and surprising to anything else.

If you thought an art movie 'gazing into the heart of male desire ' couldn't be worse than Pornhub, think again.

Not cheesy but laughably pretentious.

Not consumerist but totally vacuous.

Not overwrought but asexual.

And at the end...

'Do you think we know each other better?'

Who cares frankly. This film ought to come with a health warning. It's enough to put you off sex altogether.

Give it a wide berth